Chronicle for Higher Education
September 18, 2009 front page of The Chronicle
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| Type | Weekly newspaper, website |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Corbin Gwaltney |
| Founder(s) | Corbin Gwaltney |
| Publisher | The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc. |
| Editor | Michael G. Riley, CEO & Editor in Chief |
| Staff writers | 175 employees, including 70 full-time writers and editors, as well as 17 foreign correspondents around the world. |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 1255 Twenty-Third Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037 |
| Circulation | 60,485 (June 2013) |
| ISSN | 0009-5982 |
| OCLC number | 1554535 |
| Website | www |
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and Student Affairs professionals (staff members and administrators). A subscription is required to read some articles.
The Chronicle, based in Washington, D.C., is a major news service in United States academic affairs. It is published every weekday online and appears weekly in print except for every other week in June, July, and August and the last three weeks in December (a total of 42 issues a year). In print, The Chronicle is published in two sections: section A with news and job listings, and section B, The Chronicle Review, a magazine of arts and ideas.
It also publishes The Chronicle of Philanthropy, a newspaper for the nonprofit world; The Chronicle Guide to Grants, an electronic database of corporate and foundation grants; and the Web portal Arts & Letters Daily.
Corbin Gwaltney was the founder and had been the editor of the alumni magazine of the Johns Hopkins University since 1949. In 1957, he joined in with editors from magazines of several other colleges and universities for an editorial project to investigate issues in higher education in perspective. The meeting occurred on the day the first Sputnik circled the Earth, October 4, 1957, so the "Moonshooter" project was formed as a supplement on higher education for the college magazines. The college magazine editors promised 60 percent of one issue of their magazine to finance the supplement. The first Moonshooter Report was 32 pages long and titled American Higher Education, 1958. They sold 1.35 million copies to 15 colleges and universities. By the project's third year, circulation was over three million for the supplement.
In 1959, Gwaltney left Johns Hopkins Magazine to become the first full-time employee of the newly created "Editorial Projects for Education" (EPE, later renamed "Editorial Projects in Education") starting in an office in his apartment in Baltimore and later moving to an office near the Johns Hopkins campus. He realized that higher education would benefit from a news publication.
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